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eh it's fine. sure, technically speaking you're giving your machine over to whoever wrote that script. they could do anything! but actually, the script is usually useful and safe. Like this one.


I took a peek at the script and I don’t think I want anyone who writes code like that coming anywhere near my machine if I can help it.


Heh, yeah.


You know that, I know that, but the thousands of people getting desensitized and trained to run random terminal commands like this to "fix their wi-fi" usually don't.

The problem isn't even pasting curl output into sh – it's instructing non-technical users to run any terminal commands, in my opinion.


I’d be happy to point them to the UI for disabling awdl0. Let me know when you find it.




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